I knew a Subaru guy who moved on to an Audi S4 and then a 9-3 Viggen. Regarding the Viggen: “I have finally found a car that makes an Audi look reliable in comparison.”

Seriously. I was cranking up into third on an on-ramp the other day only to get stuck behind a guy in a 340i doing 35. Boston is weird...people in Mirages and Crosstreks (two of the only cars on the road slower than a Fit) are trying to pass me in anger while I end up blowing by Mercs and BMWs doing 5 under the speed…

I used Rotella in my Subaru partially because it was the cheapest synthetic available. It was also cheaper than the yellow jug Pennzoil I was using before, though only by about two dollars per gallon.

The HR-V is Honda’s subtle way of punishing people for being too self-conscious to drive an actual car in the form of the Fit. The Fit has roughly the same amount of cargo space, gets better fuel economy, is faster, and is cheaper.

As a Fit driver I was ready to come in and excoriate people for putting so much emphasis on power, but if a Crosstrek does 0-60 in 10 then my Fit is about 2 seconds faster. Hm.

The new Elantra Sport has the 1.6 turbo from the Veloster and does 0-60 in 6.4.

Jon Peterson’s Playing at the World remains the authoritative text on the genesis of D&D...not only does it go into some of the more esoteric origins of both the roleplaying and the wargaming sides of the hobby, but it treats the collaboration between Gygax and Arneson with a more even-handed approach than most of the…

The F engine was kind of an aberration, possibly because the engine was originally a licensed copy (that’s speculation on my part). In almost every other case, the number was iterated up when there was a changed block design. The 5S-FE used the fifth iteration of the S-block, as an example. It’s more accurate to call…

I owned a 1997 SSEi, and the thing that bothered me most about the car was how good it could have been if it wasn’t screwed together so poorly. It was a great cruiser up until the moment that you heard that “clunk” and something else had detached. Or you found that you couldn’t open the passenger door due to the…

Still disappointed there’s no hatchback. Honestly, though...that mechanical LSD. Just put that in the Sport hatchback. I don’t even need the 25 HP if you really don’t want to give it to me.

I made a cold air intake out of PVC pipe. ‘Nuff said.

He’s never going to make it to Jericho if he drives like that...

The thrust of the argument is that, barring someone randomly inviting you to a game, the only guaranteed way to play is to run yourself and convince others to play. In addition to being the newest, 5e is also going to be the easiest for beginning DMs.

If you get to the point where this is a hobby you think you’ll want to stick with, just mosey over to Amazon and buy the Chessex Pound O’ Dice: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008C0KXYS/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=16PC7CNBMS1KG&coliid=I3NI8OI96P4MM7&psc=1

That’s awesome. I still want a Celica once I have space for a project car...either a 7th gen GT-S, a 4th gen GT-S, a 3rd gen GT-S or Supra, or maybe an AllTrac if I came into some fuck-you money.

I’m not sure the Celicas are either...I can’t find any that someone would possibly call “clean”. The ricer tax is strong on both models.

No one seems to remember that the curb weight for the 7th gen Celica hovered around 2400 pounds. It was about 300 pounds lighter than the RSX-S and that counted for quite a bit, even with a 20 horsepower deficiency.

“Millennials are a subscription-based culture” seems like excuse-making for “consulting firms have no better/smarter way to explain the fact that people with less money tend to be payment shoppers.”

Why would a poser spend so much money on something that no one will be able to see unless they walk up to the car and squint?

The reason to write it is so that when Alfa fails, people say “man, looks like reliability is important” rather than “see? Nobody cares about performance and driving experience”.